· Private foundation
Kakani Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k25 grants · $32k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $53k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN ACADEMY OF OTOLARYNGOLOGY | $53,278 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $9,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| MERCY MEDICAL CENTER | $4,034 |
| AAPIQLI | $2,500 |
| MOUNT SINAI SOUTH NASSAU | $1,975 |
| MEDICAL SOCIETY OF THE STATE OF NEW | $1,600 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,400 |
| LONG ISLAND INDO AMERICAN LIONS | $1,215 |
| WNYC | $1,200 |
| AMERICAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONS | $742 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $500 |
| RAJMAAI | $500 |
| ASSOCIATION OF INDIANS IN AMERICA | $300 |
| THE HINDU TEMPLE | $217 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–20, $400) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
22 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 16% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $64k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MIMPMAANA INC5× · 2021–2025 · $20k · revenue +97%
- MMMERCY MEDICAL CENTER6× · 2020–2025 · $13k · revenue +19%
- OFOM FOUNDATION INC8× · 2018–2025 · $2k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- IAINDO AMERICAN LIONS CLUBone grant, 2024 · $20k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLEone grant, 2024 · $20k
- UIUNIVERSITY IN DENVERone grant, 2019 · $15k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To update and educate members of the medical profession on current activities and new products.
To facilitate and enable indian american physicians to excel in patient care, teaching and research
The mission of the american college of physicians (acp), www. acponline.org, is to enhance the quality and effectiveness of health care by fostering excellence and professionalism in the practice of medicine. acp was founded in 1915 to…
The National Ayurvedic Medical Association represents the Ayurvedic profession in the United States of America. Our mission is to preserve, protect, promote and advance the consciousness-based philosophy, knowledge, science and practice of…
New york institute of technology (nyit) offers various degree programs, including undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees, in more than 50 fields of study, including architecture and design; arts and sciences; (continued on…
Our mission as per the by-laws : a) the board adopts a strategic plan that includes goals which will lead to acquiring accreditation recognized by us department of education and maintaining it. this includes getting an accreditation from…
Improve excellence and access in higher education. Current focus is on India. Thus, Nalanda 2.0's current focus is to make India's higher education system world-class by building a world-class multidisciplinary research university,…
Maintened a website to document and present our research, popular vedic popularvedicscience.com. added 200 new articles and the website is now a top ranking site
We are the alumni of the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, who live and/or work in North America, which includes the USA, Canada and Mexico. Our goal is to garner the best and the brightest minds in Science and Technology from…
We support, through philanthropic efforts, the improvement of urological care globally by funding research, clinical education, patient education, and humanitarian programs.
Layyasaaram institute of indian arts was established with three primary goals. perform: conduct indidan classical music and dance performances of local and visiting atistis in the twin cities and rochester metro areas. educate: conduct…
How this is measured
23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 77 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds MPMAANA INC ↗
- Who funds MAHESHWARY MAHASABHA OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds OM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds HINDU AMERICAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONS ↗
- Who funds STONY BROOK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Arya Family Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Kakani Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kakani Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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